They say the fastest way to a man’s heart is through their stomach…well the fastest way to make me feel home is through mine. Here are my top 5 favorite restaurants in Rehovot Israel. Home never tasted so good!

Being in Israel as an American Jew means many things. It means I can’t always communicate effectively with the bus drivers. It means that I can easily buy delicious chocolate, hummus or schnitzel whenever I want. It means I can wear shorts in December because, unlike my hometown Minneapolis, there isn’t snow...

Part of the Masa Israel Teaching Fellowship is to take fellows on trips, or tiyulim, across the country, but often with a focus on the poorer socio-economic regions in what is broadly termed as the periphery of Israeli society. It thus seems only appropriate to start our first daylong tiyul...

Teaching in Israel, or in any foreign country for that matter, can feel like emotional jenga. The responsiveness of those rare, enthusiastic students will send you skipping down the streets, rushing home to plan your next lesson, convinced that your ideas as an educator are the Jewish State’s most valuable imports since mazgan and sunblock.

You'd think an American biology nerd would be superfluous in a country rife with Nobel Prize winners, globally lauded science institutions, and technological innovations galore. But despite Israel's reputation as a leading nation in biotechnology, crystallography and physics, science education is not readily accessible to all sectors of Israel's population. For this reason, Yale-bound Tara...

Illinois native Hannah Turner is a staunch social activist. After graduating from Haverford College with a degree in Psychology, she faced a familiar dilemma for many educated 20-something Jews: Dive straight into her career in the US, or take time to explore the world, exercise her commitment to social change, and enrich her Jewish identity? After much deliberation and soul searching, she...

Karen Allenick grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and studied social work at Ohio State University. This past year, she lived in Akko, Israel and volunteered as an Israel Service Fellow. “I took the skills I learned from my degree in social work and put them to use working with at-risk youth in different environments in Israel. I worked in schools, after-school centers, community...

After Jennifer Segall graduated with a master’s degree in Elementary Education from George Mason University, she was looking for her next steps. She had gone on Taglit-Birthright in 2008 and always wanted to go back to Israel, but didn’t know how. When her rabbi sent her an e-mail about Israel Teaching Fellows, she knew she had found the right program. “This program involves...